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Integrating an Ounce of Prevention

In recent years there has been debate about whether preventive services would actually lower health costs.

Would savings to programs like Medicare be blunted because healthier patients tend to live longer -- and therefore ultimately pile up more medical costs -- than patients who die sooner of their chronic diseases? But an article in this month's American Journal of Public Health by Dana Goldman Ph.D. and his colleagues suggests that preventive medicine saves money along with lives. In fact, the authors calculated that a middle-aged person successfully treated for obesity, hypertension, and diabetes would gain about six years of life and, despite living longer, could save…

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Advances in Preventive Medicine

Advances in Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of preventive medicine.

International Journal of Preventive Medicine

International Journal of Preventive Medicine is an open-access peer-reviewed monthly publication with international Editorial Board members. The journal aims to serve as a focal point for debates and exchange of knowledge and experience in the entire field of preventive medicine among researchers in a global context

Prevention Science

Prevention sciences encompassing etiology, epidemiology and intervention are represented through peer-reviewed original research articles on a variety of health and social problems, including but not limited to substance abuse, mental health, HIV/AIDS, violence, accidents, teenage pregnancy, suicide, delinquency, STD's, obesity, diet/nutrition, exercise, and chronic illness.

Preventive Medicine

Recognized for its authoritative contributions to the entire field of preventive medicine and public health, Preventive Medicine: An International Journal Devoted to Practice and Theory is a respected source of information on applied research into all aspects of prevention.

The Journal of Primary Prevention

The Journal of Primary Prevention publishes manuscripts that address the prevention of high risk behaviors, the reduction of associated problems and harms, and the promotion and maintenance of healthy functioning and psychosocial wellness. We publish a wide spectrum of studies that include the epidemiology and determinants of high risk behavior and environments, as well as the development, evaluation, translation, sustainability, and costs and benefits of preventive interventions.

World Journal of Preventive Medicine

World Journal of Preventive Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of preventive medicine.

Accident Analysis & Prevention

Affiliated with the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. Accident Analysis & Prevention provides wide coverage of the general areas relating to accidental injury and damage, including the pre-injury and immediate post-injury phases. Published papers deal with medical, legal, economic, educational, behavioral, theoretical or empirical aspects of transportation accidents, as well as with accidents at other sites.

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention publishes articles featuring population-based research on cancer etiology, prevention, surveillance, survivorship, and cancer health disparities-- with a particular focus on articles with a transdisciplinary approach.

CVD Prevention and Control

CVD Prevention and Control seeks to provide a forum for dialogue and education on matters that relate foremost to the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases worldwide, with a special focus on countries with middle and lower economies.

Disaster Prevention and Management

Disaster Prevention and Management (DPM) sets out to advance knowledge in the broad field of disaster risk reduction and management. Disasters refer to events associated to all forms of hazards, including natural phenomena, technological accidents, criminality and conflicts, complex emergencies, transportation accidents, poverty and other social and economic threats.

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine (EHPM), published bimonthly, is the official journal of the Japanese Society for Hygiene. The journal is devoted to the publication of definitive studies on human health sciences, including regular articles, short communications, and review articles.

High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention

Aimed at offering an open and dynamic forum for discussing current topics not only in hypertension, but also in cardiovascular disease prevention, High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention focuses on:Invited state-of-the-art reviewsExpert commentaries on guidelines, randomized clinical trials and clinical and experimental studies on hypertension and cardiovascular disease prevention.

Infection Control Today

Infection Control Today is the leading information source for infection preventionists and their colleagues in operating rooms, sterile processing, environmental services and materials management. Infection Control Today has been serving hospitals and their critical information needs in the area of infection prevention since 1997. Infection Control Today magazine, website and e-newsletters deliver the timely, relevant practice guidance that medical professionals need to protect their institutions, their patients and their fellow healthcare workers, and to eliminate healthcare-acquired infections.

Infectious Diseases & Preventive Medicine

Infectious Diseases & Preventive Medicine is a broad-based journal found on two key tenets: To publish the most exciting researches with respect to the subjects on Infectious Diseases & Preventive Medicine : Secondly, to provide a rapid turn-around time possible for reviewing and publishing and to disseminate the articles freely for research, teaching and reference purposes.

International Journal of High Throughput Screening

An international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal. Publishing original research, reports, editorials, reviews and commentaries dedicated to all aspects of high throughput screening, especially related to drug discovery and associated areas of biology and chemistry.

Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention

JCRP is the only professional journal for the entire cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation team. Dedicated to the improvement of multidisciplinary clinical practice, JCRP provides high quality, current information to practitioners in the field. Original, peer-reviewed manuscripts cover all aspects of cardiac, peripheral vascular, and pulmonary rehabilitation.

Journal of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

An international online open access peer reviewed journal dealing with all aspects of epidemiology and preventive medicine. The journal aims at providing quality and safe health service by publishing original research papers of clinical importance. However the journal also publishes editorials, reviews, didactic papers, commentaries, conference proceeding on all aspects of epidemiology and preventive medicine.

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene.

The Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene is published on a three monthly basis and covers the field of epidemiology and community health. The Journal publishes original papers and proceedings of Symposia and/or Conferences which should be submitted in English with the exception of other languages.

Preventive Cardiology

Preventive Cardiology was launched in response to the exponential growth of knowledge in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Advances at both the basic and clinical levels have been extensive and continue to evolve rapidly. Preventive Cardiology provides a unique forum for the research of investigators and clinicians covering the many diverse but related disciplines that contribute to the prevention of heart and vascular disease.

The EPMA Journal

The EPMA Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal offering high quality reviews of particular educational value and research articles for broad dissemination to the scientific world, healthcare industry and public. The journal promotes a new philosophy in healthcare: the paradigm change from delayed interventional to predictive, preventive and personalized medicine (PPPM).

Traffic Injury Prevention

The purpose of Traffic Injury Prevention is to bridge the disciplines of medicine, engineering, public health and traffic safety in order to foster the science of traffic injury prevention. The archival journal focuses on research, interventions and evaluations within the areas of traffic safety, crash causation, injury prevention and treatment.

American Journal of Preventive Cardiology

The journal publishes both original research and review papers that address the key aspects of preventive cardiology, including the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and related conditions including both behavioral (e.g., smoking, obesity, diet, and physical activity) and clinical (e.g., dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes) aspects.

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

The American Journal of Preventive Medicine is the official journal of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. It publishes articles in the areas of prevention research, teaching, practice and policy. Original research is published on interventions aimed at the prevention of chronic and acute disease and the promotion of individual and community health.

European Journal of Cancer Prevention

European Journal of Cancer Prevention aims to promote an increased awareness of all aspects of cancer prevention and to stimulate new ideas and innovations. The Journal has a wide-ranging scope, covering such aspects as descriptive and metabolic epidemiology, histopathology, genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, clinical medicine, intervention trials and public education, basic laboratory studies and special group studies.

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology (formerly European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation)embraces all the scientific, clinical and public health disciplines that address the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiovascular rehabilitation and exercise physiology.

European Journal of Preventive Medicine

European Journal of Preventive Medicine (EJPM) provides a forum for the publication of scientific research and review articles. The journal publishes original full-length research papers in all areas related to the prevention research, teaching, practice and policy. It is aimed at the prevention of chronic and acute disease and the promotion of individual and community health.

Indian Journal of Preventive & Social Medicine

Indian Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine is a scientific journal on Preventive & Social Medicine/Community Medicine published from the institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University.